6 ideas
1403 | A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |